I think a lot of winners will be teams, but not individuals. It is very rare for one person to have the ability to pull together every piece of an application on their own and do a good job. Everyone on our team had a very different background and I think it allowed us to build a much better application (not saying we are going to win by any means, just that we would have been much worse off otherwise) - one person had front end interface skills, one person did UI coding, one person did server side coding, one person did non-technical product development, and one person managed the process.
I think the problem with individuals is that you might get an engineer who thinks they are building the best thing ever, but then it is so unusable to the average Joe they miss what is really under the hood. On the other hand, you might have the business types who have a great vision without the technical skills to pull it off. If you look at the old posts on the board, you can see a lot of evidence of this - both from people who recognized this was the case, and others who were to narcissistic to see a problem. Companies often lose out on innovation, but think about their resources. So I predict most winners will be in teams first, corporations second, and individuals third. On May 6, 5:48 pm, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree with you. I would be really surprised if most of the > winners were not individuals and small teams. Why? Because most of the > new ideas come from individuals and small teams in my opinion. > Assuming that the distribution of good ideas is the same among > individuals and corporations then I think we should have more > individuals (and small teams) winning. > > On May 6, 8:21 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My $.02. > > > The Android Challenge community is most likely identical to other > > online communities. > > > If so, then <5% of the people entering into the Google Challenge are > > actually active participants in the community. That would be in line > > with the number of Challenge submissions as 1788 * .05 = 100 is > > roughly the number of people that posted to the ChallengeMeter post. > > > Given that we've seen mostly individual Challenge participants posting > > here, my guess is the majority of the non-posters are the company & > > team submitters. Since those team/company submissions are most likely > > to win due to greater time/effort spent on their submissions, the > > majority of the top 50 winners are probably people that have not been > > active in this community. > > > If you followed all that, this is the unfortunate reality of most > > communities...i.e. that the many benefit from the posts of the few. > > With a new product like Android, it's guaranteed that every Challenge > > submission benefited greatly from the dialogue in these communties, > > but sadly few of those who benefited probably gave back to that same > > community (ie. were active posters). > > > So the short end of my answer is "No...I wouldn't expect many people > > who are posting to this community to have many hits from the judges as > > we're probably not in the top 50." I REALLY hope I'm just being > > cynical and pessimistic...but then again, that would mean this > > community is unlike the majority of online communities out there. > > > This isn't a diss at Google or online communities, but simple the sad > > fact of our society in general. > > > Now please...please...let me be proven wrong when the winners are > > announced...! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
